If you're ever bored, here's a list of Studio Ghibli films you can watch for free.
Castle In The Sky (1986)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kikiâs Delivery Service (1989)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Pom Poko (1994)
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Cat Returns (2002)
Howlâs Moving Castle (2004)
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008)
The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010)
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.
For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.
There is a distinct technique used by capitalists to bypass the legal and contractual rights of workers which to my knowledge has no name currently - so Iâm giving it one - Lunch Grinding.
Lunch Grinding is a manipulative erosion of worker rights both in and out of the workplace. It bypasses legal and contractual standards through informal social pressures which the bosses cannot be held directly accountable for.
Lunch Grinding is named after one of the most common examples. It begins by asking a few employees to skip lunch in order to finish a project. Workers who are already insecure about their position due to economic anxiety will see this as an opportunity to prove they are a good employee. Those who refuse to do so may receive blame for failing to finish the project on time.
The issue becomes compounded when the bosses begin to purposefully schedule less time to complete the same projects. A distinct class begins to appear ignoring their contractual right to a lunch break - who become hostile to those who refuse to work during lunch for being âlazyâ or âthe reason we didnât finish on time.â
At this point the management no longer needs to influence anyone directly to work through lunch break, simply by keeping up the sense of constantly being a little late for the project they have ensured the lunch-grinders will apply pressure to their peers who arenât working through breaks.
As workplace hostility increases towards the âunproductiveâ members who are expressing their formal right to a break - they will be replaced with new individuals who may not even realize they have the right to a lunch break because working through the hour has become normalized by their peers.
Thus formal written standards from contracts and legal code become functionally non-existent. After which a new standard will be identified by management for erosion some examples include:
+Accepting uncertain hours.
+Working off-the-clock.
+Staying âOn-Callâ at all times.
+Finishing projects / responding to emails at home.
+Never using time off or sick leave.
All of which are socially conditioned in the same format - starting with âThe Good Workerâ who does a little favor for their boss - and ending as a peer enforced pressure and a perpetual hostility from management claiming productivity isnât as high as expected.Â
A tiktok reply to a comment that says, âan ambulatory wheelchair user? đđđâ
The girl says, âI wasnât gonna reply to this comment at first, but I decided I should make a video on it, because recently, Iâve gotten so many ableist comments about being an ambulatory wheelchair user, and I really wanted to address it. There are quite literally hundreds of reasons why someone could use a wheelchair. And actually, the majority of wheelchair users are not paralyzed. Over 60 % of wheelchair users are not paralyzed. They use it for some other disability. So just because you see someone who uses a wheelchair get up and walk for a few steps does not mean that they donât need their wheelchair.
I use a wheelchair for like, ten different reasons. First of all, I have a condition called hypermobility spectrum disorder, which is very similar to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, for people who know about that, which basically means that all the connective tissue in my body is extremely stretchy and loose. This means that all of my joints are extremely hyper-mobile and they dislocate very easily. My hips sublux, or partially dislocate, almost every single time I try to take a step. Itâs extremely painful, and it literally causes damage to my hip joints. My connective tissue disorder also caused me to develop a condition called POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. This makes me pass out basically any time I stand up for more than, like, 20 seconds. So itâs not really safe, because Iâve gotten concussions from it before from passing out and hitting my head.
POTS and hyper-mobility spectrum disorder also come with extreme fatigue, and I donât mean being tired, I mean fatigue. My muscles physically get exhausted much easier than other peopleâs. And, to top it off, I have a neurological condition called functional neurological disorder. Basically, it makes my legs go numb, it causes me to have extreme muscle weakness in my calves and thighs, and some days I canât really move them that well.
Disabled people and ambulatory wheelchair users do not owe you an explanation, and you need to understand that. I am sharing this because I feel comfortable with it and because I want to, I want to educate this person. But you have to understand that not every person is like that, and quite frankly, itâs none of your business. Thank you.â
Wow it always hits me like a truck when someone else talks about the same chronic health issues that I have because for twenty eight years I had no idea what was wrong with me. I occasionally use a wheelchair, if you donât like it, suck my entire ass.
Iâve been diagnosed FND and suspect I have hEDS and POTS so her situation sounds very relatable. Iâve been denying myself ever using a wheelchair because my parents would probably see that as âgiving upâ but I do use a walking stick everywhere I go. Doesnât help with the super low energy though, so maybe if I can stop the internalised ableism getting in my way, I can find a mobility device that can help me get out more than I currently can.
straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia
As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!
If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.
Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allieâs roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. âThis night is for the straights,â Swindellâs character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.Â
This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). Itâs also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, thatâs not even thirty years ago.Â
By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They arenât the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond ârepealâ signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...)
(...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. Thatâs just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheepâs clothing.
yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??
also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!
like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.
the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.
How is it that you can a music library of like 1,200+ absolute bangers but as soon as you put it on shuffle in a group setting it's like. anime opening you added in 2010. homestuck parody song. musical artist who was cancelled last year for kidnapping and eating children in his basement. Hamilton
I can't believe some people are actually reblogging this like "Tch. Omg, so embarrassing OP, I can't believe you would ever admit to liking Hamilton đ " like ok, first of all congratulations for hatching as a fully formed adult in 2022 from the pure white egg of a virgin swan i guess. Raised in a cave on a diet consisting solely of nuts and berries and leftist twitter clapbacks. "ooooooh, I've never had a complicated relationship with a piece of art that was phenomenally well-received at the time but aged like milk as later reflection revealed the fundamental flaws in its premise that were in fact present from its inception but which I didn't notice because I was 17 and hadn't heard of neoliberalism yet" Should we throw a party? Should we invite Anthony Fantano? Anyway second of all. you draw the line at Lin Manuel Miranda but you're fine with basement guy?
I still love Avenue Q because I was a teenager when it came out and I know the context for a lot of jokes that have aged worse than milk. Once upon a time Christmas Eve wasn't the butt of a racist Japanese joke, the joke was about weebs and she was making fun of them (perhaps best seen in the line "tried to work in Korean deli, but I am Japanese"). In 2003, a gay Republican would have been seen as silly and a bit deluded but not dangerously ignorant because it was a very different party back then. "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" is...okay it was always a little sus, but I think if you can take off your Earbuds of Self-Righteousness for just thirty seconds and listen to the words being said, you'll realize it can be taken as a serious warning about unexamined biases. (It likely wasn't intended that way. That doesn't mean it doesn't work.)
So: Hamilton? Hamilton came out at a time when the US was having a reckoning with race and immigration history. If you look at it in the context in which it was created, it makes a lot of sense. Yes, it's clumsy and flawed. Most early attempts at any kind of social grappling are. But it was trying to ask us to look at something we very much took for granted (of course everyone in the story of the Revolution was white...even though that's not actually true, and in fact the first death of the Revolution was a Black man killed by British soldiers at the Boston Massacre), and to really think about it, and to imagine a world that was different.
And to add to that, even it being flawed doesn't mean it did no good. It did make a lot of people think! It forced a lot of people who gravitate to musicals because of a very Eurocentric musical style to stop and think about traditionally Black genres like rap and R&B as not just music, but art, and to think about the implicit and explicit biases in musical casting and production! Up until that point, the vast majority of Black-specific roles were "addict," "slave," "cautionary tale," or "joke." Suddenly we had a whole slew of them available that were "dignified, honorable, petty, messy, passionate, complicated people, sources of inspiration and foundation." I love musicals, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend Broadway doesn't have a racism problem, or that it wasn't even worse before Hamilton. I can name exactly two pre-2016 musicals that feature Black-specific roles that aren't the above-named archetypes: RENT (which has one: Joanne, with Benny being a cautionary tale about forgetting your roots) and Hairspray. And while Hairspray is great, it's also "slaves 2.0: Civil Rights Movement Edition," and a white girl saves the day. As I have bemoaned before: "are Black people allowed to tell one single story about themselves that isn't about their oppression?"
YES. Everything you're saying is true AND I think it's important to point out it's extremely overt Pro-Immigrant stance. In 2015. When Trump was gaining power and popularizing "Illegals" as a talking point. When people were chanting "Build the Wall" as he said Mexicans are rapists and cartel thugs and drug dealers. Lin-Manuel Miranda had the audacity to stand center stage, cut all accompaniment so you could really hear the lyrics, and said "Immigrants, we get the job done."
(It also bugs me that people mock his voice because it seems like petty and mean-spirited bullying but that's a different discussion.)
Exactly. I'd also argue he did something really unusual with Eliza: after Alexander dies, he ends the show with her story. So many musicals would have chosen to end with her sobbing on Alexander's motionless chest. Does she deserve her own biography? Absolutely. Is it breaking the mold and doing something good that Miranda said "I don't have another two hours but dammit you need to know how many hours this woman spent making sure I had a story to tell"? YES. He credits her with her words, and the bar is in hell on that front, but at least he demonstrated you can choose to step over it instead of playing Misogyny Limbo with the devil. A small step is still a step.
He also did something else unusual--so often the story of the Revolution is told as A Few Great White Men. The real story is not A Few Great Men. It is several tens of thousands of men and women, all races, fighting on both sides, while the lawyers fought but also did a ton of paperwork. And they weren't some great united front! I'm allowed to make this joke because I'm Jewish: I think all the founding fathers were secretly Jews not for any power-based reason but because no other group of people so firmly in agreement could possibly disagree with each other more. They disagreed so much that agreeing to the first ten amendments before the constitution was even ratified was the only way to get it ratified. Hamilton makes it very clear these were Just A Few Of The Guys Involved. It doesn't have the runtime to expand on that; I listen to a history podcast that spent almost twenty hours on just an overview of the Revolution. But it gave us more of a taste of This Was A Huge Group Effort than pretty much any other Revolutionary media of similar length and scope.
Perfection is the enemy of good. I would rather have Hamilton in 2015 and look at it in 2026 and go "well, that aged rather unevenly, didn't it" than to have not had Hamilton and not had a country forced to reckon with a lot of really awkward truths.
And some of that unevenness, let's be real, is because people these days have a hard time looking beyond a caricature or single dimension. One major criticism I've heard of Hamilton is that the characters are almost all Black but were also mostly enslavers. This is true. It's also true that a lot of them were enslavers and abolitionists at the same time, and I think racebending them forces us to look at that contradiction more directly than if they were played straight. (And no, this is not me playing apologist for the founding fathers. Slavery is wrong now, slavery was wrong then, a lot of their own writings show they were perfectly aware of this. But this is a critical part of understanding them and the system they created. How does one both perpetuate and try to destroy? Why? What were the outside influences? Nobody just wakes up one day and says "gee, I think I want to own a person." How did they reconcile these irreconcilable positions in their own minds?)
"I'm uncomfortable" doesn't mean "this is bad." Sometimes "I'm uncomfortable" means "I wasn't ready to look this close." Sometimes it means "I didn't want to look this close." We need to stop mistaking the former for the latter.
It's also true that a lot of them were enslavers and abolitionists at the same time, and I think racebending them forces us to look at that contradiction more directly than if they were played straight.
Watching Hamilton right after 1776 underlines that.
Like, yes, 1776 has a whole song on what all these people are complicit in even when their involvement and how they benefit are indirect at best (special highlight to the rum drinkers bc the song is describing the Triangle Trade), and Hamilton mostly just has part of one cabinet battle song. But look who's singing each of these and what his respective role in the narrative is. Calling Thomas Jefferson on his hypocrisy lands differently when it's coming from one of the primary antagonists of the musical (who is only not being hypocritical himself because he doesn't actually think the horrific practices he's describing are a problem) than when it's coming from the title character.
Also iirc both 1776 (1972) and Hamilton (whatever year the version on Disney Plus is from) are entirely the original Broadway casts? Either way, both movies have their Thomas Jefferson played by someone with about the same skin tone as who they have playing their daughter of Jefferson's father-in-law. Which is most likely an accurate statement to make about the historical Thomas and Martha Jefferson, but not a particularly novel or interesting thing for 1776 to say; casting put a lot of effort into matching the looks of the historical figures, but that's it. (I do notice that either there's not a single person of color or I'd have to go through the outdoor scenes a frame at a time to find any extras of color. Which, the historical Continental Congress might've been all white, but Philadelphia was not.)
And afaik we don't have any way to be sure of what the historical Sally Hemings looked like, but three of her biological grandparents were white and her maternal grandmother was an enslaved African. Which means the historical Sally Hemings could have had about the same skin tone as both her half-sister Martha and the man who fucked them both; certainly the impression we get from contemporary accounts is that she was white-passing. And it's very unlikely the historical Sally Hemings was any darker than either Daveed Diggs or the Hamilton chorus member whom Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson addresses as Sally.
Yeah, that choice has a few things to say that wouldn't be said if Hamilton's Jefferson looked more like 1776's Jefferson.
Also, while Hamilton has its flaws ... why is Hamilton the one we pick on out of aaaaalllll the historical plays and all the musicals? Hamilton is actively trying to be feminist and anti-racist! It is actively lifting up people of color and the art forms they have created and going "this matters, this has always mattered, what these people have to say about American history matters." And there's a lot to be said about the ways it fails in that, or the ways that in doing so the way it does it misses or hides a lot of things.
but also. given the shitton of movies, plays, and musicals that enthusiastically support white supremacy and patriarchy, or just take them for granted as unchanging pillars of the world ... Hamilton is the one you want to shit on? Really?
This was my first year attending Dashcon 2 and it. Was. INCREDIBLE!!! It was genuinely such a joy to be apart of! Im not sure If I will be able to go in person again but just know. The Mospel (Muppet Gospel) will be spread.
HAUL!!!
I spent a lot more money at the artist alley than I do for other cons but my bounty was fruitful!!!! This isnât even all of it because I bought a lot of presents for friends.
And holy shit I traded/was gifted SO MANY ADORABLE THINGS!! I brought a whole bag of ducks and stamps and they were all gone by Sunday :DDD I will cherish all these goodies FOREVER!!!!!!
I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that âStealing isnât Innovationâ when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.
May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.
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